Paper 1: The ‘AKP model and Tunisia’s al-Nahda: From Convergence to Competition
Stefano Torelli, PhD candidate, University of Rome la Sapienza – Italian Centre for the Study of Political Islam

Paper 2: Arab Uprisings, Constitutional Law and Islam: Perspectives for an Accountable Government in Libya
Pietro Longo, PhD candidate, University of Naples ‘L’Orientale – Italian Centre for the Study of Political Islam

Paper 3: Al-Qaeda, the Arab Spring and the Decline of the Pan-Islamic Ideal
Ludovico Carlino, PhD candidate, University of Reading – Italian Center for the Study of Political Islam

Paper 2: From Ballots to Bullets – The Iranian Women’s Rights Movement after the Presidential Elections of 2009
Paola Maria Raunio, PhD candidate, University of St Andrews and Visiting Scholar, University of Turku

Paper 3: ‘Democracy’ as a Means of Legitimacy in Contemporary Iran
Dr Shabnam J. Holliday, Lecturer in International Relations, Plymouth University

Paper 4:Iranians in Turkey, Transnational Political Activism and the Legitimacy Crisis of the RegimeDr Paola Rivetti, Post-doctoral Fellow, School of Law and Government, Dublin City University

Chair: Dr Jordi Tejel, Research Professor, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva

Paper 1: Dangerous Liaisons under Qassem’s Rule: The Alliance Between the State and the Leftist Student Body in Iraq, 1958-1963
Dr Jordi Tejel, Research Professor, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva

Paper 2:‘Army-Youth Together’: Marxism, Nationalism and Authoritarianism in Turkey, 1960-1971
Murat Yilmaz, Research Assistant and PhD candidate, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva

Paper 3: The Egyptian Left, the Question of Authoritarianism, and the Nasser to Sadat Transition
Hassan Thuillard, PhD candidate and Research Assistant, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva